In a not-too-distant future, robots composed of metal for bones, electric cords for veins, and synthetics for skin are now available. For purchase. Eighteen-year-old Vienna Avery’s home is going to change forever, now that her mom purchased an Italian Chef Robot to cook and reside in their house.

Secrets will Unfold

The government claimed robots were indifferent, unthinking pieces of metal and elastic—assistance for hire to humans. Vienna never believed much of what the government said. The pieces didn’t always fit. And now Vienna knows why, because she’s uncovered the government’s secret: that robots have emotions, sucking Vienna into the underground world of feeling, thinking, and sovereign robots.

Sparks will Fly

Alec Cypher is everything a robot is not supposed to be: deep, dark, and dangerously human. And for some reason, he wants to save Vienna from the government’s prying, vindictive eyes. Going forward, Vienna will have to learn to trust robots and battle the growing feelings she never thought possible . . . feelings for the green-eyed, soul-searching robot named Alec.

SYNOPSIS:Kira, Samm, and Marcus
fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping
final installment in the Partials Sequence, a series that combines the
thrilling action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of
Blade Runner and The Stand.

There is no avoiding it—the war to
decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold
in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira
Walker has precious little time to prevent that from happening. She has
one chance to save both species and the world with them, but it will
only come at great personal cost.

Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live.

So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.

Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who’s always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia.

Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. And in Aza’s hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?

SYNOPSIS:Author Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster Partials,
which Pittacus Lore called a "thrilling sci-fi adrenaline rush, with
one of the most compelling and frightening visions of Earth's future
I've seen yet."

After discovering the cure for RM, Kira Walker
sets off on a terrifying journey into the ruins of postapocalyptic
America and the darkest desires of her heart in order to uncover the
means—and a reason—for humanity's survival.

Dan Wells extends his
richly imagined, gritty world and introduces new memorable characters
in this second installment in the Partials Sequence.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed—arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know—especially an alien spy, like Jackson.

Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war...

SYNOPSIS: 'Lacy Dawn's father relives the Gulf War, her mother has lost her teeth, and her best friend is killed by her own father. Life in The Hollow in West Virginia isn't great. But Lacy Dawn has one advantage—she's been befrended by a semi-organic semi-robot (DotCom, alias Buddy) who works with her to 'cure' her parents. Buddy wants something in exchange, though. It's up to Lacy Dawn to save the universe.' —Books for a Buck

'Imagine Wizard of Oz and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy smashed together and taking place in a hollow in the hills of West Virginia.' —Adicus Ryan Garton, Editor, AtomJack

SYNOPSIS:
Two decades before the events of Partials,
the world was locked in a different battle for survival: a global war
for the last remaining oil reserves on the planet. It was for the
Isolation War that the American government contracted the ParaGen
Corporation to manufacture the Partials—our last hope in reclaiming
energy independence from China. And it was on these fields of battle
that the seeds of humanity's eventual destruction were sown.Isolation
takes us back to the front lines of this war, a time when mankind's
ambition far outstripped its foresight. Heron, a newly trained Partial
soldier who specializes in infiltration, is sent on a mission deep
behind enemy lines. What she discovers there has far-reaching
implications—not only for the Isolation War, but for Partials and humans
alike long after this war is over.
A powerful take of our world on the brink, Isolation gives readers a glimpse into the history from which Partials was born—as well as clues to where the Partials Sequence is heading next.

SYNOPSIS: When two soldiers from
opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk
everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe.

From bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan, Saga
is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place
in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in
this sexy, subversive drama for adults.

SYNOPSIS: Percy Jackson is a good
kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper.
And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse—Percy
could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried
to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he
knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place
he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for
demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew
is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with
his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of
Athena—Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the
gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and
prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.

SYNOPSIS: Natasha Romanoff is one
of the world's most lethal assassins. Trained from a young age in the
arts of death and deception, Natasha was given the title of Black Widow
by Ivan Somodorov, her brutal teacher at the Red Room, Moscow's infamous
academy for operatives.

Ava Orlova is just trying to fit in as
an average Brooklyn teenager, but her life has been anything but
average.The daughter of a missing Russian quantum physicist, Ava was
once subjected to a series of ruthless military experiments-until she
was rescued by Black Widow and placed under S.H.I.E.L.D. protection. Ava
has always longed to reconnect with her mysterious savior, but Black
Widow isn't really the big sister type.

Until now.

When
children all over Eastern Europe begin to go missing, and rumors of
smuggled Red Room tech light up the dark net, Natasha suspects her old
teacher has returned-and that Ava Orlova might be the only one who can
stop him. To defeat the madman who threatens their future, Natasha and
Ava must unravel their pasts. Only then will they discover the truth
about the dark-eyed boy with an hourglass tattoo who haunts Ava's
dreams. . . .

Black Widow:Forever Red features all the
heart-pounding adventure readers expect from Marvel, written by #1 New
York Times best-selling author Margaret Stohl. Uncover a new side of the
Marvel Universe that will thrill loyal fans and newcomers alike, as
Stohl reveals the untold story of Black Widow for the very first time.

09 December, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for The Siren by Kiera Cass!

Before she publishes The Crown (The Selection Series #5) she will publish another stand-alone novel called The Siren and although it sounds like she will maintain her style of writing, the plot promises! Who doesn't like Sirens/Mermaids? By the way, it is really a standalone. No sequels to it, she said it.

SYNOPSIS: A girl with a past she tries to forget, and a future she can’t even imagine.

Leonie Woodville wants to live an unremarkable life. She wants routine, she wants repetition, she wants predictability. So when she explodes in a blaze of light one morning on the way to her college, it’s enough to put a real crimp in her day.

And things only get weirder…

Leonie learns from her father that she is last of the Pulsar, a phenomenally powerful member of a magical species called the Chosen. It will be her sole duty to protect the Imperium, a governing hierarchy, from all enemies, and to exceed the reputation of the Pulsar before her. So – no pressure there, then.

Leonie is swept away from her rigorous normality and taken to a world of magic. There, she is forced into a ceremony to join her soul to a guardian, Korren, who is both incredibly handsome and intensely troubled, a relationship for which ‘it’s complicated’ just really doesn’t cut it.

But Leonie is soon to learn that this ancient world is no paradise. With violent dissidents intent to overthrow the Imperium, and dark entities with their own agenda, she and Korren find themselves caught in a war where they will have to overcome their differences if they are to survive.

August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside.

But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go.

Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?

Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches forever, WONDER is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

SYNOPSIS: A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.

The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.

They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all. Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.

03 December, 2015

It is almost Christmas! Cannot believe it! This year it is even more special for me because after two years my bf and I are going to spend Christmas at my parents! So so excited! However, this also sadly means that for two weeks starting 15th of December I will be less around. BUT I will have scheduled reviews coming up so you will still have what to read! We are not forgetting you! We love you too much! So, because of the same reason me being on holidays I am not sure how much reading I will be able to do in December! After all, you can pack only so many book into hand luggage. But I am taking my tablet with me and therefore my ebooks! Hopefully, I will manage to read at least some of the books that are on my December TBR!

Christmas! How many of you are going to ask for books as presents? ME! I always ask for either books or money so that I can buy books xD Alright, something very important... like every Christmas I will be going back to Spain to spend the holidays with my family and because I don't get to see them often I usually don't read much (besides my mom always keeps me busy) so I'm sorry but I won't be posting much... Hannah and I have both set up some posts to fill these "blank" two weeks so do not worry and of course you can still contact us!
Now, which books did I pick? As you can see I managed to read all November books plus 4 books that were originally set up for December! (must be a record...) so for those two weeks of December I have before going to Spain I will read Gravity and Rarity from the Hollow!

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02 December, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for Riders by Veronica Rossi!

Have you seen this cover? HORSES! I LOVE HORSES! And a horse on fire nothing less... I received a preview excerpt from Tor via NetGalley (I already wrote the review) and at first I didn't realize but then boom it came to my mind that Veronica is also the author of Under the Never Sky series! While I gave 3 stars to Under the Never Sky for reasons... Veronica demonstrated a big development on her writing with Riders! I loved it!